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by nemo1618 8mo ago
Just wait. In a few years we'll have computer-use agents that are good enough that people will stop making APIs. Why bother duplicating that effort, when people can just direct their agent to click around inside the app? Trillions of m
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by nemo1618 8mo ago
This strikes me as a very agent-friendly problem. Given a harness that enforces sufficiently-rigorous tests, I'm sure you could spin up an agent loop that methodically churns through these functions one by one, finishing in a few day
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by nemo1618 8mo ago
For those curious about division, I wrote a popular uint128 package in Go that uses one of the standard approaches: https://github.com/lukechampine/uint128/blob/3d2701e8e909405...
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by nemo1618 8mo ago
Here's one attempt: https://x.com/sigilante/status/2013743578950873105 My take: Any gains from an "LLM-oriented language" will be swamped by the massive training set advantage held by existing mains
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by nemo1618 9mo ago
Blackpill is that, for this reason, the mainstream languages we have today will be the final (human-designed) languages to be relevant on a global scale. Eventually AIs will create their own languages. And humans will, of course, continue d
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by nemo1618 9mo ago
The skill isn’t being right. It’s entering discussions to align on the problem. Clarity isn’t a style preference - it’s operational risk reduction. The punchline isn’t “never innovate.” It’s “innovate only where you’re uniquely
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by nemo1618 9mo ago
This is conflating two things: The stuck, and the suck. As the author says, the time you spend stuck is the time you're actually thinking. The friction is where the work happens. But being stuck doesn't have to suck. It does suc
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by nemo1618 10mo ago
You certainly do not need to play music at the speed the performer intended! There are whole genres (and subgenres) based on this. :) Personally, I have found that slowing a familiar piece down by ~5% tricks my brain into perceiving it as
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by nemo1618 10mo ago
Conversely, I use this "block pattern" a lot, and sometimes it causes lifetime issues: let foo: &[SomeType] = { let mut foo = vec![]; // ... initialize foo ... &foo }; This
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by nemo1618 10mo ago
Years ago there was a YouTuber, "Surveillance Camera Man," who went around pointing a camera at people with no pretense. Frequently the subjects were upset by this and became aggressive, even violent. I believe the intended messag
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by nemo1618 10mo ago
yep, https://github.com/lukechampine/slouch . Fair warning, it's some of the messiest code I've ever written (or at least, posted online). Hoping to clean it up a bit once the bytecode stuff is production-read
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by nemo1618 10mo ago
I made my own, with a Haskell+Bash flavor and a REPL that reloads with each keystroke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r99-nzGDapg This year I've been working on a bytecode compiler for it, which has been a nice challe
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by nemo1618 11mo ago
Ha, I'm in a similar position, having given up on it after a few months of sips. At what point did it click for you?
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by nemo1618 1y ago
AI does not need to be conscious for it to harm us.
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by nemo1618 1y ago
Liquids are also removed (gradually). For someone already in weakened condition, I would be surprised if the process took longer than two weeks.
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by nemo1618 1y ago
Your passwords should never be visible on screen anyway: They go straight from a password manager into a censored input field.
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by nemo1618 1y ago
yup, less than 24 hours after writing that comment, I found myself embedding a struct so that I could override one method in a test, haha
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by nemo1618 1y ago
Over the course of ~10 years of writing Go, my ratio of "embedding a struct" to "regretting embedding a struct" is nearly 1:1. I do not embed structs anymore. It is almost always a mistake. I would confidently place it i
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by nemo1618 1y ago
I'm very interested in this too. We're beginning to see models that can deeply understand a single image, or an audio recording of human speech, but I haven't seen any models that can deeply understand music. I would love to
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by nemo1618 1y ago
Time for Hungarian notation to make a comeback? I've always felt it was unfairly maligned. It would probably give LLMs a decent boost to see the type "directly" rather than needing to look up the type via search or tool call.
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by nemo1618 1y ago
I'm dipping my toes into decompilation -- specifically, decompiling Super Smash Bros. Melee. Once you get into the groove, it's kinda addicting! Now that I've done a few functions by hand, I'm wondering how to best lever
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by nemo1618 1y ago
There are two ways to look at this. First is that, if the parsing library for your codec includes a compiler, VM, and PGO, your codec must be extremely cursed and you should take a step back and think about your life. Second is that, if the
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by nemo1618 1y ago
I think this adds more confusion than it removes. A list is not a monad. A list is a data structure; a monad is more like a "trait" or "interface." So you can define a List type that "implements" the monad in
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by nemo1618 1y ago
> Bill, who lives near Aylesbury, said the reason for the request last Wednesday would be revealed in 23 years. ...well?
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by nemo1618 1y ago
Many people aren't aware that you can use key: val declarations in arrays
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by nemo1618 1y ago
I wonder, what's the "weirdest" expression in Go? Here's one: type Foo struct{} func (Foo) Bar() { println("weird...") } func main() { ([...]func(){^^len(` `): (&Foo{}).Bar})[cap(a
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by nemo1618 1y ago
Knitting is definitely the O.G. fidget toy for neurodiverse women
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by nemo1618 1y ago
I see two downsides. Looking at this snippet: my_function (): Unit can AllErrors = x = LibraryA.foo () y = LibraryB.bar () The first thing to note is that there is no indication that foo or bar can fail. You have to loo
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by nemo1618 1y ago
I wonder: if we get superintelligence before 2030, do you think we should revive him ASAP, or wait and do it in 2030?
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by nemo1618 1y ago
Neat, thanks for doing this!

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